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minus-squareCort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·2 days ago How is this possible without micro soft dicks selling this information to spammers? If you’ve opened any of the emails and loaded any images, the server hosting those images gets your IP when you load the image. Some times it’s just a single pixel
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 day agoWhich is why any decent mail client doesn’t do that by default and why web interfaces suck.
minus-squareEvil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·2 days agoSo they could stop it, but don’t. I’ll never get him to switch to something like proton mail or whatever safe alternative there is.
If you’ve opened any of the emails and loaded any images, the server hosting those images gets your IP when you load the image. Some times it’s just a single pixel
Which is why any decent mail client doesn’t do that by default and why web interfaces suck.
ah, the 'ol transparant pixel
So they could stop it, but don’t. I’ll never get him to switch to something like proton mail or whatever safe alternative there is.